The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-03-10
BAD TEMPERED MEN.


tages of Being Cross and truS'y.
"Have you ever noticed,' as',-d tho
old citizen, what a good time III" bal
tempered people have in this W'.iG:
How they get their own way a. ut
every thing. and how every on H., 10
do their bidding? Now, Ioa\ ut
that man over there complaccn;ly en-
ing his vemison steak. IL came in ten
minutes after did, and yet here am
sill waiting for my lunch. Why did
he get served first? Well, no. because
he's good customer; he's not half 50
regular rs | am: not br,lus. II" urs
largely. for I know he never gives u
cent. while | am guilty of bribery and
corruption to the extent OF two or
three quarters a week, bat jus simply
because he has tn" worSt temper il
Chicago and would raise Cain
if ne were kept waiting.
Now, /. on the con-
trarv. have the misfortune to he mild
tempered, and, consequently, lam con-
tinually imposed on, here and every
where else. The walters all know that
the worst they have to expect from me
is little mild grDwling, and therefore
l am frequently left, rs am today, to
regale myself upon pale-blue table
napkin, knife and fork, and a cruet,
while the bad-tempered fellows steaks
and chops flash by like lightning. [
don't like it, but what can | do? |
couldn't fly into rage to save my
life | would if | could, with the
greatest pleasure-I don't disapprovo
RACES on principle at all-but | can't
It's physical impossibility, you know.
was born without the faculty. Oh.
the bad -tempered man has the best of
it by long way, and especially In the
bosom of his family. Instead of being
worried about frozen pipes and inn
pertinent servants and smoking
chimneys, as we unfortunate ami
able mem are, every thing that goes
wrong is carefully kept from him for
fear he should be cross The children
are invariably we'll behaved when
papa is home because they stand in
wholesome awe of summary proceed
ings on his part; his wife never bothers
him for money any more than she can
possibly help, because she knows it
doesn't agree with his temper; his
mother-in-law carefully avoids the
house, because poor dear Fanny's hus-
band is so irritable, you know and he
is spared that terrible nuisance of be-
ing obliged to listen, over and over
again to every little unpleasant thing
which happens; as for instance, how
Mrs Jones, next door, gave dinner
and asked the Smiths and didn't ask
u.s. because his wife knows that
if annoyed on the subject he
is quite capable of peremptOri-
ly bidding her drop Mrs. Jones
acquaintance. His meals are always
on the. table punctually, because his
servants are aware of the fact that Mr.
- is awful pertic'lar and his meat
is never cooked to death or too rare,
because the cook has no desire to b.
dismissed on the spot.
VERY likely he is a pleasant agree
able fellow when nothing has occurred
to vex him, and consequently his
friends do their best to keep him in an
equable frame of mind. They. never
persistently contradict him. because
-, you know, has such devil of
temper and they tacitly agree to let
him have his own way about most
things. Tradesmen don't cheat him,
knowing that he won't put up with it;
his clerks do their best and work twice
as hard as other peoples clerks be-
cause they want to keep peace in the
office.
land bad-tempered women, I've OBJ
served, are never imposed upon as
their more 'amiable' sisters are. Their
servants and children obey them. their
husbands humor them, their friends
pet them. They are never sighted. or
made use of or pushed on one side,
because they won't stand those things,
and no one wants to make them
cross Indeed, "a bad temper is not
such bad thing, IN my opinion"